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At the time of my last heart attack, before being released from the Rochester hospital, all heart patients were required to attend a seminar during which the attending physicians emphasized time and again that we needed to included a substantial quantity of flax flour in our daily diet. They suggested that we use something like a sugar shaker to sprinkle the flour on on, or in, everything we ate. That idea did not work out very well, but since then I have come up with a recipe that puts more than two full cups of flax flour into my weekly diet. Depending on the machine you use and personal taste, you may need to play around with the recipe a bit but if you try it, I think you will discover why it has become my "turn-to" snack food of choice..

We were told that flax flour reduces the LDL or bad cholesterol along with the triglycerides and that it also helps lower blood pressure while having no effect on the level of HDL or "good" cholesterol. The hospital did not recommend that we use it to make bread. That is something I came up with as a more palatable method of incorporating the flour into my diet.

That bread looks delicious....like I should have a piece toasted with strawberry jam! I have been making granola bars that have flax seed in them for the very reasons you stated....I'm printing off this recipe to try it...hope mine turns out as good as yours looks!